The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, April 03, 1912, Image 9

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THE REMARKABLE SYMPATHY OF WILLIE HEARSTFOR THE BRITISH COAL MINERSr. . Hearst's American this afternoon prints three cartoons and along, fine editorial about the justice of the demands of strikingcoal miners.Which sounds fine, and maymake ' you think that WillieHearst, surely is the friend of theworkingman unless you happento examine the cartoons a littlemore closely and "read the editorial. (If you do these last, however,you'll find out that the cartoons-are taken from the Labor Leaderof LONDON, and that the editorial is all ahout the justice ofthe demands of the strikingBRITISH miners, and the pitifulness of the wages paid the.BRITISH miners, and the necessity of seeing that the BRITISHI miners have adequate protectionfor BRITISH lives and limbs.There isn't a word in that editorial about the AMERICANcoal strike. There isn't a wordabout the justice of the demandsof the AMERICAN coal! miners,of the right of AMERICAN coalminers to a decent living wage, ofthe right of AMERICAN coalminers to proper protection forAMERICAN lives-and limbs.In fact, you couldn't tell froriireading that editorial, or studying those cartoons that there wasor ever had been such a thing asan AMERICAN coal miner.And there isn't much news in" Hearst's American, about'" theAmerican coal miners' strikefor what there is before you canfind itThere's the whole Atlanticocean between Hearst newspapers and those poor, abused,coal miriers of Great Britain, andthe mine owners of Great Britain,don't advertise in Hearst's newspapers. So Hearst is for the Britishcoal miner. He is for him strong,and he is willing and anxious toback them up in his newspaperswhich are published in America,and he is willing and anxious totell just why he is backing themup. He just spills all over himself in sympathy for the Britishcoal miners in that editorial.Here's a sample paragraphfrom the editorial :"And no one can contradict theactual statistics which show thatfour miners are killed in Englandevery day. And no one can quarrel with their (the miners') demand that precautions shall betaken to cut down the number ofthese deaths."Now would you think it everhad occurred to Willie Hearstthat no one can contradict the actual statistics which show thatTEN miners are killed in theUNITED STATES every day?And would you think it hadever occurred to him that no onecan quarrel with the AMERICAN miners' demand that everyprecaution shall be taken to cutdown the number of thesedeaths?If you did think that thesecither. You have to go huntingMMtMnAfeaAdbAAaaBauuutiMi